Friday, December 2, 2016

Welcome again to the Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop, that runs the first Friday of every month! You'll see projects from Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from all over the world in this blog hop. My name is Kimberley and I am in the United States, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This month's topic is All Wrapped Up, and the Cat's Out of the {Petite Café} Bag for Day 2 of my 12 Days of Catmas:

There's a lot of detail work on this bag, as well as a lot of coordinating product. Now, if I lived in the UK, I'd get a box of Fortnum & Mason Chocolate Langues de Chats (Cat Tongues) to give away in this bag...I think they'd be a perfect purrfect fit! Speaking of purrfect, don't forget to check out the Year End Close Out Sale to see if you can bag some deals for yourself on soon-to-be-retired holiday products.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Welcome to the December 2016 Edition of the We Create Bloggers Step It Up Blog Hop! The theme is to inspire stampers with a basic design, and at least one alternate "stepped up" version of that same design. My trigeminal neuralgia is making yet another painful and disruptive visit, but I really want to stamp, and cats make me happy so I decided to stamp some of them. I mean, stamp some images of cats onto projects...not stamp some of my actual cats. My hope is to share at least one new kitty kraft each day for a dozen days, and start a new annual tradition for my blog: The 12 Days of Catmas! I've seen several versions of this cat card running around Pinterest for a few years now, and I wanted to try one for myself:

Cute idea, right?? The Triple Banner Punch makes this card super easy, because it puts the tails--or EARS, in this case--on 3 sizes of strips: 1", 1-1/2", and 2". If you're clever and careful, you can fit some smaller and in between sizes down into the punch also, but it is specifically marked for those 3 sizes. The nose/eyes image comes from the Foxy Friends stamp set, and there are actually 3 different nose/eyes images, so you can use a different one on each kitty. The whiskers are just drawn on with a Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker. You could easily make a good number of these fairly quickly.

The Step It Up version adds a lot more layers and texture...tails and whiskers! I'll be honest, it was very time consuming, and I used a LOT of different tools, but (I think) the results are pawsitively stunning >^..^<

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